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TI-2026-60261 Aliases CVE-2026-88877GHSA-9rch-gvf7-hrfc

Traefik v3.7.0 Authentication Bypass via from-to-www-redirect

Priority MEDIUM 49CWE-639Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-639.

Summary

Traefik is a HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. In versions >= v3.7.0 and <= v3.7.11, the Kubernetes ingress-nginx provider mishandles Ingresses that carry both an authentication annotation and the nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/from-to-www-redirect annotation. For such Ingresses the provider creates an additional 'sibling' router that matches on the host alone, carries only the RedirectRegex middleware, and still points at the parent router's protected backend service. Because RedirectRegex is not a terminal handler, a request its pattern does not match is forwarded to the backend, and because the redirect pattern only accepts a numeric port while Traefik's host matcher canonicalizes the authority via net.SplitHostPort, a request with a non-numeric or empty port (for example 'Host: www.example.com:x') selects the sibling router, misses the redirect, and is proxied to the protected backend with none of the Ingress's annotation-derived middlewares applied. This discards not only authentication (e.g. BasicAuth) but every annotation-derived middleware, including source-IP allowlisting. Traefik v2 and v3 releases before v3.7.0 are not affected. The issue is fixed in v3.7.12.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00649 51st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
traefiktraefik3.7.0 – 3.7.13—No fix listedCNA
  • traefik Vendortraefik Affected 3.7.0 – 3.7.13 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:traefik:traefik:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*3.7.0 to before 3.7.12Vulnerabletraefik
  • cpe:2.3:a:traefik:traefik:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 3.7.0 to before 3.7.12 Vulnerable ·traefik

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Critical. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 2 products
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-88877
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-9rch-gvf7-hrfc
  3. 2026-10-16 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile

References

  • TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2023-25774 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Traefik CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2025-40914 Traefik doesn't Prevent Path Normalization Bypass in Router + Middleware Rules CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
  • TI-2022-07529 Authorization header displayed in the debug logs CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
  • TI-2024-30459 HTTP client can remove the X-Forwarded headers in Traefik CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-60033 Traefik HTTP/3 Backend NTLM Connection Reuse CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.1
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Sources